Thanks Gary, The manual probably tells me how to do that but I am not all together familiar with the terms yet. Again i appreciate your help. :)
Tim

>The manual probably tells me how to do that ...<

Actually, that's a good example of something you don't see in the manual. To do this particular task, it takes a COMBINATION of bits thay are in the manual.

The best way to learn these things is throughexperimentation, experience, or perhaps an instuctional video (wink, wink).

Gary

Often it will be much simpler than this. Many people have Auto-Ripple enabled all the time anyway, so the Ctrl-F to ripple step may be unnecessary. Also, if your project consists of a single video track with a single audio track, then you will be selecting everything anyway so the Ctrl-A and Ctrl-Shift-A steps may be unnecessary too.

This boils down to many situations in which the steps are:

- drag a highlighted area to select the section you want to delete
- press Delete

Another way:

put cursor on the start of the bad part
hit the s key
put cursor on the end of the bad part
hit s key
with ripple enabled the two clips will come together
without ripple, just double click on the empty space inbetween the two good clips and hit the delete key


You're not alone. I am one who is too lazy to read manuals. it took me almost 6 months before I realized the shear beauty of the "s" key.

>Often it will be much simpler than this. Many people have Auto-Ripple enabled all the time anyway,<

Yes and No. As we all know, there are almost always several ways to do the same thing in Vegas.

The steps I chose to prescribe were what I thought best to recommmend to a novice Vegas user that would get them in the least amount of trouble and also not make assupmtions about how many tracks the project consisted of.

Who are these people that have auto-ripple on all the time? I am certainly not one of them as that would, by far, be the easiest way to unknowingly screw up a project, and I consider myself an advanced user.

Not trying to be contentious here, but just thinking "out loud".

SR_C you could save a few steps in your method because s key will also split the beginnning AND end positions of a time selection in one step.

Gary

"SR_C you could save a few steps in your method because s key will also split the beginnning AND end positions of a time selection in one step."


WOW!! just tried it!

I've been using VEGAS for nearly 2 years and I never realized that!

Gary, you just made my world a tad easier. Thanks!

I, too, only turn on Riplle Edit when absolutely required as I often found it's effects, when using multiple video/audio tracks, harder to work out in advance.

Then that's the beauty of Vegas - so many ways and whys of using it:-)

hee hee! I discovered that (selection being popped off with auto- ripple on) by pure chance like two days ago ! First I was wondering what happened then I hit ctrl+z keys (so precious combination of keys sometimes...) and I got the idea...Usefull to get rid of glitches sometimes.
I too am a fervent on/off'er with auto-ripple. Sometimes helps, sometimes not... I'm with you guys on that one...